Open Recommendations

Determine the allowability of the questioned unsupported costs of $86,856 ($76,458 costs incurred, and $10,398 cost share contribution), on pages 1 and 5 of the audit report and recover any amount that is unallowable.

Lower the $400 resource level tolerance for Access to Financial Institutions application use to $0 to help ensure more accurate Supplemental Security Income resource determinations when processing initial claims, pre-effectuation review contacts, and redeterminations.

We recommend that the Indian Health Service work with Gallup Indian Medical Center and the Navajo Area Office to take action to complete background investigations, including adjudication, for staff members identified in this report as not having a satisfactory background investigation.

We recommend that the Indian Health Service work with Gallup Indian Medical Center and the Navajo Area Office to monitor background investigations to ensure all elements are completed within required timeframes in accordance with Federal requirements.

We recommend that the Indian Health Service work with Gallup Indian Medical Center and the Navajo Area Office to update standard operating procedures for background investigations to include completing background investigations for temporary staff in accordance with Federal requirements.

We recommend that the Indian Health Service work with Gallup Indian Medical Center and the Navajo Area Office to determine which staff members in contact with Indian children currently have a pending background investigation and take immediate action to supervise these staff members when children are in their care and adequately document such supervision.

We recommend that the Indian Health Service work with Gallup Indian Medical Center and the Navajo Area Office to follow through on its plans for an agencywide process to facilitate compliance with the sight and supervision requirements for staff with pending background investigations, including documentation that supervision actually occurs.

We recommend that ASPR correct the one Push Package sample item in its Stockpile's inventory system and complete its annual warehouse inventory check by the established target date of September 2024.

We recommend that EmblemHealth refund to the Federal Government the $551,917 of net overpayments.

We recommend that EmblemHealth continue to ensure that its policies and procedures have been adequately designed and implemented to prevent, detect, and correct noncompliance with Federal requirements for diagnosis codes that are used to calculate risk-adjusted payments.

We recommend that the GSA Chief Administrative Services Officer work with GSA’s Federal Acquisition Service program officials to implement messaging to travel cardholders on the proper use of government rideshare contracts.

We recommend that the GSA Chief Administrative Services Officer continue training related to use of the government travel card in rideshare applications.

We recommend that the GSA Chief Administrative Services Officer continue to remind travelers in training and in the Concur travel system to not pay sales or occupancy taxes in tax‐exempt states.

We recommend that the GSA Chief Administrative Services Officer create the questionable charges report according to the requirements of GSA’s Charge Card Management Plan to ensure that all charges are screened and that questionable charges are identified and investigated.

We recommend that the GSA Chief Administrative Services update the questionable charges report to ensure the results are complete. These updates should include a higher level of detail to ensure timely resolution and response, and capture employee name changes or separations from the Agency.

We recommend that the Assistant Secretary for the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education require Iowa torequire Southeast Polk to ensure that LEA officials responsible for making or reviewing and approving purchases receivesufficient training on Federal rules and regulations related to grant administration and management, particularly thoseaddressing procurement process and documentation requirements.

Establish a requirement in the RPT Program Plan for recurring right-size studies for the RPT capability portfolio and use the results to reexamine workforce and capability requirements for the future.

Ensure that cost models deployed at all RPT Centers include full recovery of applicable maintenance costs for the infrastructure and facilities being utilized, similar to that being piloted at Stennis.

Formally document and establish the FM&M process in the RPT Program Plan or RPTMB Operating Procedures.

Document the results and planned RPT actions following completion of the Commercial Capability Survey.

Ensure that the appropriate revisions are made to NPR and NPD 8600.1 to clarify the authority structure.

We recommend that the Chief Information Security Officer develop and implement procedures to leverage the Repository for Software Attestation and Artifacts to obtain sufficient assurance that the security and supply chain controls of systems or services provided by contractors or other entities on behalf of the organization meet FISMA requirements.

We recommend that the Election Assistance Commission's Chief Information Officer implement EL3 logging requirements in accordance with Office of Management and Budget memorandum M-21-31.

We recommend that the Election Assistance Commission's Chief Information Officer establish and implement a formal Information Security Continuous Monitoring Strategy and an effective monitoring mechanism to track the progress of ongoing lessons learned.

We recommend that the Election Assistance Commission's Chief Information Officer identify and employ an automated notification mechanism to test its system level contingency plans thoroughly and effectively.